15 Taipan Chambers Having found the training room empty, Stealth had ended up spending much of his evening training by himself. He worked his way across the various pillars at first, where Tropical had challenged him, and then found a weight room complete with sparring dummies to practice his hand-to-hand combat. When he was worn out and his forearms hurt from working the wooden dummy—having taken his gear off to train his body without the rest of the equipment—he geared back up and started over in the main room again. Halfway across, the lights went out and the space simulation turned on. He spun, eyes searching, and then spotted Nightshade at the entrance. “Don’t let me stop you,” she called out. “But you should be training with the full sim.” “Yes, sir.” He turned and was about to

